Scriveiner's Journal

Single-tasking: a pen as the way to regain control over your attention

The average knowledge worker switches between tasks or applications every three minutes and five seconds. That figure comes from Gloria Mark's research at the University of California, Irvine, and ...

The pen as a gift: how to choose a writing instrument for someone else

Most of what we have written about pens assumes you are choosing one for yourself. That changes things considerably. When the pen is yours, you can afford to experiment, like trying a nib size you ...

What ink colour says about how you think

Most people settle on a colour early and stay with it for years. Black for everything official. Blue because that is what was in the pen at school. Red, occasionally, and only for marking. The choi...

The attention economy and the case for slow writing

 On reclaiming focus in a world designed to amuse and built to abuse. 

Bullet Journaling: A Tool to Heal Your Attention Span

What bullet journaling is Bullet journaling is an analogue organisation system created by designer Ryder Carroll and published in full in his 2018 book The Bullet Journal Method. A notebook-based p...

She Has Always Been There: Scriveiner on Mother's Day

The world has a way of becoming harder to navigate. Noisier, somewhat faster, heavier, in ways that are difficult to explain to anyone who has not felt it themselves, read the news or deal with dai...

Ballpoint vs Fountain Pen: Which Should You Choose?

The question seems simple. Two pens, one choice. But anyone who has stood in front of a pen display, or found themselves unexpectedly attached to a particular writing instrument, knows that the ans...

The Psychology of the Morning Page

Why writing three pages by hand before the day begins works — and what the science says about the window it exploits.

The All Black Classic

This spring, one of the pens we dreamed of making finally sees the light of day. Presenting the All Black Classic

Why the Ballpoint Pen Changed How the World Writes

From a Hungarian journalist's frustration with smeared ink to a billion pens produced annually: the history of an instrument that quietly rewrote who could participate in written culture.